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HBC planning department – up in the top ten?

Is Hastings Borough Council’s planning department one of the 10 best in the country? Planning officials and Labour councillors think so, based on a rating drawn up by the independent Planning Advisory Service. The Save Ecclesbourne Glen campaign group found the claim mystifying and asked Chris Hurrell to look further into it – further indeed than the council, which could not even tell him how the rating was arrived at. Chris came to a rather different conclusion, as he describes here.

Posted 16:22 Saturday, Mar 5, 2016 In: Home Ground Tags: Andrew Palmer, Chris Hurrell, Hastings Borough Council, HBC, Michael Wincott, National Quality Framework, PAS, Planning Advisory Service, planning department, Richard Street, Save Ecclesbourne Glen, SEG, Top Ten

Unauthorised developments at caravan park exercise minds at protest group’s meeting

The Save Ecclesbourne Glen group had its annual general meeting last Sunday (15 November), and explained its work to concerned local people. The retrospective planning case on solar panels is part of a much bigger picture. Will the Bunker really be demolished next spring? Can the situation get worse? Bernard McGinley observed.

Posted 09:32 Monday, Nov 23, 2015 In: Home Ground Tags: Amber Rudd MP, Bunker, Certificate of Lawful Use, Cllr Atkins, Council, Country Park, Ecclesbourne Glen, Hastings Badger Protection Society, Hastings Country Park, HBC, High Weald, High Weald AONB Unit, planning, Rocklands, Save Ecclesbourne Glen, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, SEG group

Solar panel games at Rocklands

Hastings Country Park and its environs are still the subject of contentious planning matters. What are the lessons supposedly learned? Now there’s another retrospective application. The débâcle goes on — as you can find out next Sunday afternoon (15 November). Bernard McGinley reports.

Posted 21:29 Wednesday, Nov 11, 2015 In: Home Ground Tags: AONB, Bahcheli Report, Country Park, Friends of the Country Park, HBC, High Weald, Historic England, planning, planning committee, Rocklands, Save Ecclesbourne Glen, Warren Cottage

Country Park pledges from Rudd and Owen

Concerned over recent developments in the Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve (HCPNR), Michael Madden, a former member of the Save Ecclesbourne Glen lobby group, decided to check out where the local Conservative and Labour candidates stand on these issues. Here he discusses his findings.

Posted 09:34 Wednesday, Apr 8, 2015 In: Campaigns Tags: Amber Rudd, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Eric Pickles, fracking, Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve, Local Plans, Michael Madden, National Planning Inspectorate, National Planning Policy Framework, permitted development rights, Sarah Owen, Save Ecclesbourne Glen, visitors centre, Warren Cottage

In favour of the new visitor centre

HOT reader and Country Park enthusiast Andy Lee takes issue with what he feels are some misleading impressions given in a recent article on developments in the park.

Posted 09:56 Monday, Mar 16, 2015 In: Home Ground Tags: Andy Lee, Country Park, gorse removal, visitor centre, Warren Cottage

New blots, old landscape

What is it about the Country Park? On Wednesday 4 March Hastings Borough Council’s planning committee will consider again the notorious Rocklands case — and a couple of others. Bernard McGinley wonders if they’re linked.

Posted 14:32 Tuesday, Mar 3, 2015 In: Home Ground Tags: AJK, Bernard McGinley, Bunker, Christian Zwart, Coastguard, Fairlight, Groundwork South, Hastings Borough Council, Hastings Country Park, nature reserve, Rocklands, Walter Scott, Warren Cottage

Drama of love & hate

Continuing with his discussion of the changing nature of human relationships (Forever in our hearts, Sept 2014) Sean O’ Shea considers the drama of love and hate. Drawing on a variety of sources such as psychoanalysis, nursery rhymes and popular culture, he asks: is love possible?

Posted 10:46 Friday, Dec 5, 2014 In: SOS Tags: Klein, Lacan, love and hate, psychoanalysis, sos

New build above Ecclesbourne Glen (far left)

Pig’s ear causes sty in eye

As the campaign continues over damage to Hastings Country Park, the major eyesore that is the two-storey bunker on the East Hill is still there, a continuing blott on the landscape. There are other issues too, as Bernard McGinley found out when he attended a recent public meeting.

Posted 11:37 Tuesday, Oct 14, 2014 In: Home Ground Tags: Bernard McGinley, Bob Okines, Chris Hurrell, Cllr Lee, Cllr Lock, Cllr Poole, Coffey Geotechnical, East Hill, Ecclesbourne Glen, Hastings Country Park, HBC, Maggie Alderson, Michael Madden, Peter Gray, Rocklands, Sarah Owen, Save Ecclesbourne Glen